The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-10
FARM AND FlREsIDE.

Throw flour or wooden rug over
fire caused by n broken kerosene
lamp. Never use water.
"A good cement to close the cracks
in stoves is made by mixing wood ashes
and salt.
in following the humane system OF
training horses the trainer himself is
trained. -Harpcr's Monthly.
1t Is well known that fine loaf
sugar sprnklcd over proud flesh will
remove 1t with less trouble than with
any other remedy.
The struggle against weeds may be
continued in autumn with more or less
success as long rs their seeds can be
induced to sprout, ready for destruc-
ton by the harrow. Tho Farmer and
Manufacturer.
Facts clearly and conciscly stated,
principles derived from these facts, and
practical suggestions, must be the sta
pie of the model farm paper. .-lKinne-
sofa Farmer.
Plum Pudding: One pound cur
rants, one pound bread crumbs. one
half pound raisins, one pound Met
chopped fine, four eggs. one table,
spoon brandy, sugar and nutmeg to
taste, orange and lemon peel candied.
-Erchangc.
Vegetable Soup: Four onions, three
turnips, four carrots, one small head
of cabbage, one pint of butter beans
4 IL, &c n,,n
done, add quart of soup stock; take
two tablespoonfuls butter and one OF
| flour, beat to a cream; pepper and salt
to taste; add II spoonful sugar. Serve
with fried bread chips. Boston Budget.
The simultaneous development of
the bone, wool, fat and muscle in the
system of the sheep requires wide
diversity of elements in the food. 1t
would be impossible, for instance, to
get ewes to thrive well on Il diet of corn
alone; they would grow too fat. and
would amount to nothing. Variety is
absolutely essential.-1roy Times.
| Prominent poultrymen grow a
large crop of cabbage for winter use.
In the cold season the cabbage is either
chopped fine and fed to the hens, OF
tied to small stakes so they can pick the
heads at will. There is no great
amount of nutrition in cabbage, but it
serves rs change from grain to green
and bulky food. Every poultrymun
should lay by few for the hens
Indianapolis Journal.
Ginger Cake: One cup of brown
sugar, one cup of cold water, one-halt
cup of butter, one cup of mulnsses, one
heaping teaspoonful of soda, one quart
of sftcd flour, and one heaping tea.
spoonful of ginger. A little salt mus
be added unless salt butter is used
Bake we'll in IL quick oven. BY steam.
ing two hours this recipe will answer
for pudding. Serve with sweet sauce
Household.
--Jumbles Rasp on some good suga
the rinds of two lemons; dry, reduce i
to powder, and sift it with as mucl
more sugar rs will make up II pound ir
weight. Mix it with one pound o
-four, four well-beaten eggs, and 81!
ounces of warm butter; drop the mix
ture OH buttcred tins, and bake th'
jumblcs in very slow oven from
twenty to thirty minutes. They shoul,
be pale but perfectly crisp.-Farn
Field and Stochman.
Road building and road repair
ing is a. science, and an import
ant science too; and it is ridicu
lous that work, of such practica
Importance, should be so largel!
entrusted to men, who, however skilled
and successful they may be in thei
own department of industry, know
little of the principles of surveying OF
scientific road making, and whose only
idea of repairing roadway is to pile
lot of dirt in the middle of the high
way, until it becomes II ridge of soil
along tho marrow surface of whicl
teams have to pick their way.-M. E
Farmer.